Heather Wilson, O’Rourke, and El Paso's Conservative Oligarchs: The Left Gets Bit in the Ass
In Game of Thrones, it seems that the ultimate insult was to
kill your family and have you eat their remains unbeknownst.
Heather Wilson. Beto O'Rourke. El Paso is seeing sad times.
This seems to be the problem with the Left in El Paso.
I first wrote about this in my posting “Looking
the Other Way: The O'Rourke-Sanders Displacement and Clarence Thomas: Displacement
as a Local and International Issue” way back in 2012.
This was meant to be an attack on immigration advocates in
El Paso, many who were supporters of Beto O’Rourke.
My point was that many immigrants live in South El Paso, and
many poor Mexicans live in the Lomas de Peleo area near the Mexican side of
Anapra, New Mexico.
These were the areas being affected. This is where people
were being forced off their land. This
was O’Rourke’s selling out Segundo
Barrio.
Then there was the exposed connection with the violence perpetrated
on the residents of Lomas de Poleo in Mexico.
This was connected to many of the
deals the O’Rourke’s father-in-law and the oligarchs in Cd. Juarez were
hatching.
To be true immigrant advocates, the Left needs to be more
than advocates in the immigration reform realm.
We need to be advocates in all realms concerning immigrants:
wages, housing, woman’s issues, LGBTQ issues, and specifically when they face
displacement by Beto O’Rourke and his Republican allies.
Once immigrants are in the
United States, we cannot just abandon them to become victims of rich elites.
So what of the Left in El Paso? They seem like a snake that
eats its own tail. They shoot themselves in the foot. I write this soul searching because I'm a member of the Left.
Looking at Facebook and seeing the intense movement by the
Left by UTEP professors and students as well as community groups, many just a
few months ago were actively supporting Beto O’Rourke.
Now their hero is running for president of the United
States, and he is silent on the appointment of Heather Wilson to the UTEP
presidency. Will O'Rourke bite the hands that feed him. He did not when it came to housing for military families, so probably not.
For many of us who have fought O’Rourke and the White Elites
in El Paso for years, we saw the connection years ago.
Yes, O’Rourke and
Heather Wilson are connected. If you can’t connect the dots, you need to do
your homework.
We will cut you a break for your actions during the Texas
Senate race. Yes, why would one vote for Ted Cruz? Or maybe you were just towing the Democratic Party line.
However, for people of
color, we are often placed in this situation. One of choosing the lessor of two
evils.
For the UTEP presidential search committee, it was stacked
with Borderplex Alliance members. At one point the only person of color was the
Student Government president. Two of the search committee members are O’Rourkes
biggest contributors while on city council and in Congress. For one, O'Rourke is the largest recipient of contributions from one of them.
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| Members of El Paso Oligarch: Paul Foster (left) and Woody Hunt (right). O'Rourke is the largest recipient of contributions from Hunt Corporation, which has been accused of building substandard military housing. |
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| Above: Paul Foster and Rep. Veronica Escobar celebrate victory. |
What can we say? Is it a “reap what you sow”? Or “chickens
come home to roost” for El Paso’s Left?
The road toward the Right in El Paso is being paved with the
bones of the victims of El Paso’s elite.
We are at dinner and the victims of O’Rourke and his conservative
allies are being fed to us — and all we can say is, “That’s a good pie.”
